Tyan k8sr lockups

[Vivek Khera]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Gary Mu1der wrote:

> Well I can just now reliably hang (no panic, have to reset) my shiny 
> new AMD64 dual processor box (2 x Opteron 246, Tyan Thunder K8S PRO, 
> 6GB, Adaptec 2200S) with a simple dd of /dev/mem:
>

if you've got > 4GB ram, you pretty much *must* run something newer 
than 5.3-REL.  Try bringing it up to 5_STABLE cvs branch and see if you 
can still lock it up.

I don't have my spare machine at the moment to test this theory out, or 
I would...  rather not lockup the production box more often than it 
does by itself :-(


Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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